I was able to photograph about 80 years of records from Bethlehem Baptist Church in Jefferson County, Missouri. Although many of the people mentioned in these records are relatives if not ancestors of mine, I don't know all of the names. Please leave a comment or e-mail me with any name corrections.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Membership Records 1880-1890

Although there were no dates on this page, Caroline Valle is one of my relatives on the Tyrey-Reiter side of the family. She married Peter Charles Valle in 1860 and died in 1910, so the above page is somewhere in between: Miss Ellen Baldwin, Mrs. Caroline Valle, Miss Mary Jane Mothershead, Mrs. Clara Davis.As you can see some of these pages are in poor condition, but we can see that the years are 1880 and 1881: Jane Rettger, Stephen Pounds, Reuben Chapman, Mrs. Amanda Turley, Mrs. Martha Bittick, Mrs. Louisa Reider (my great-great grandmother?), Mrs. Mary Johnson, Price McKay, Price Carrow, Robert McKay, James McKay, Martha J. Carrow, Bertha Johns, Milly Whitworth, George Evans, B. H. Hunt.

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I am the granddaughter of W.C. Manion and his second wife, Carrie Etta (Wilson) Manion. I would love to share the family history of the Manions if you are interested. I remember visiting Bethlehem Cemetery as a child. My mother was the youngest of the Manion/Wilson children. This evening, as I entered Betty Riter Manion in the Google search box, you can imagine my surprise at the first "hit" I found--this site, with a mention of my maternal grandfather and his first wife.